The owner of this vehicle wanted it perfect... What better place to bring the car then to Bella Macchina.
The work started in my garage at 5PM and I worked until 7 AM with a 15 minute break and had a great time! With the help of my cousin until 3 AM I woke back up at 9AM and logged an additonal 5 hours for a total 26 hours into this car.
This Pilot has 85k miles and had all the wear and tear of a car driven through a automated wash and the interior showed the grime of raising 3 kids in the back seat.
I started off by inspecting the paint and felt a lot of contamination (enough to eat my remaining two Sonus Gray clay bars and half of a
Meguiars Red Aggressive Clay bar). After claying the paint for several hours I found a ton of RIDs, scratches, parking lot scratches, etc... The
headlights where also severaly oxidized and needed to be sanding and polished out. Here is a process overview.
-Wash-2 bucket method using P21s Total Auto Wash with 1/4 oz of
Meg's Super Degreaser
-Wheels/Tires cleaned with PS21s Wheel Gel and Emmin Fabrik tire cleaner/Z-AIO on the wheels and Optimum Tire Dressing
-Wheel Wells cleaned with Optimum Powerclean and brushes
-Clayed with
Meguiars Red Clay/Sonus Gray Clay
-Headlights wetsanded with 800grit/1000grit/1500grit/2500grit and polished with Caswell stringbuff and Caswell jewelers rouge then finished with Menz 106ff and a white pad
-Paintwork and scratches wetsanded with 1500grit/2500grit/3000grit
Meg's Unigrit.
-Polished with
Meguiars M105 with a So1o Maroon Wool
Meguiars M83 with a So1o Diamond Pad
Menzerna PO106ff on a LC gray pad
Menzerna PO85rd on a LC red pad
-Prepsol wipedown
-Zaino Z2pro (zfx'd) x 2 topped with Z-CS, Z-8 final wipe
-Door shuts cleaned, Z-AIO, 1Z Gummi-Pfledge
-Windows cleaned with
Meguiars ProLine Cleaner, topped with Werkerstatt Prime
-1Z CockPit Premium on all interior surfaces, topped with 303 Areospace
-Carpet stains removed with Folex and shampooed with
Meguiars APC
-Zaino Z9 to clean leather topped with Connelly Hide Feed
-Engine degreased with Meguiars
Super Degreaser and powerwashed and dressed with Meguiars Hyperdressing.
-Metal and exhaust polished with Flitz
Eating clay bars alive
(one half of the front bumper)
The second clay bar feel victim to a lot of road tar
So lets start wetsanding some of the deeper scratches
Interior was pretty gross and took my cousin 6 hours to clean (even in the end there was some staining around the foot rest).
Headlights had a lot of oxidation and needed to be sanded
And polished
Interior progressing nicely
And some afters
Previously wetsanded spot of the hood
The glass also had a lot of water spotting (calcium deposits) and where polished with Zaino Z12
Linear Mode
